Total quality management in SMEs

Omega

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-106

  Ghobadian, Abby ^a,b   Gallear, D N ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Implementation; Organizational change; SME; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ENTERPRISE IS; GOOD AND SERVICES; HIGH QUALITY; IMPLEMENTATION; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; MANAGEMENT IS; ORGANIZATION SIZES; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZE ENTERPRISE;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS MODEL; CULTURE; IMPLEMENTATION; ORGANIZATION SIZE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SMALL MEDIUM SIZED FIRM;

EID: 0030072219     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0483(95)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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